Accelerating
Change 2004was a great
success!
Major thanks to our world-class speakers, sponsors, volunteers,
and 300+ attendees. See
credits to meet the people who
made it happen.A few testimonials:"A phenomenal opportunity to gain a multidisciplinary
perspective on new trends in technology and the future."
— Andrej Gregov, Amazon.com"A
first class event and one of the best that I've been at this
year.
As good as Pop!Tech." — Dewayne Hendricks
, Dandin Group"One
of the most stimulating meetings anywhere." —Chris Peterson,
Foresight
"If you want to know what will be happening in technology
in the next 5-10 years, attend AC2005. Amazing ideas and dialog."
— Richard Law
"The Accelerating Change conference helps me step outside
my normal way of thinking to see a macro view of the evolution
of technology." — Paul King"Accelerating Change conferences offer the most
"Wow! What a great idea!" moments available at any
price, anywhere." —
Eric Boyd"The
hallway conversations are as great as the sessions."
— Jay Dean"You
accelerated my learning" —Jay
Cross"Wow!!!"
— Lisa Tansey"Think you're able to
peer around corners?
Come to AC2005 and see who's three corners ahead of you.""Attendance is essential for anyone concerned
with
the future impact of technology on individuals and society."

AC2004
Audio:
Free streaming and downloads of conference audio, courtesy
of Doug Kaye and our premiere media partner,
IT Conversations.Check
here to see the archive of AC2004 speakers currently available.
More added every month!

Speaker
PowerPoints:Visit
Speaker
Slides to see those currently available.

AC2004
DVDs:Coming to Amazon in 2005, courtesy of Ted
St. Rain at Accelerating Media.

Forty-two leading
change agents. Six keynotes.
Three themes. Three debates.People and ideas that accelerate our world.AC2004 Participant Statements

In the last quarter, $2.1 billion in venture capital—38%
of all the venture money in the U.S. —was invested in
Silicon Valley. (BusinessWeek 10.11.04). This was
more than twice that invested in the next closest region (Boston).
Which people, ideas and innovations will fuel the next long
boom? Come find out at Accelerating
Change 2004.

What is Accelerating
Change? Accelerating Change
is the premiere conference exploring the opportunities and
challenges of accelerating technological change. Our
conference exists to network the most broad minded, future-aware,
practical and passionate speakers and participants.
Each year we collectively consider the staggering changes
occuring on our increasingly intelligent planet.

In today's fast-paced technological environment, understanding
and guiding accelerating change involves a new way
of thinking, learning to see the most powerful and
broadly applicable innovations, processes, trends, and physical
efficiencies, and discovering where, when, and how to harness
those to create value in the modern world.

Every fall at Stanford University, Accelerating
Change brings together world-class speakers
and attendees to discuss today's most important trends in
the science, technology, business, and social activism of
accelerating change. Think Emerging Technologies
(O'Reilly, MIT) but with a bigger picture, longer-term, strategic
scope.

Speakers present a mix of analysis, forecasting,
and action items, with multidisciplinary inquiry and
a synthesis of technical, entrepreneurial,
and social development dialogs.

Why Should You Attend?Accelerating
Change promotes high-yield, multidisciplinary,
and critical understanding of accelerating technological change
in service to professional and personal development. You'll
meet uniquely broad minded, synthetic-thinking practical futurists
and change-makers here, and the connections you make will
be among the most important, productive, and informative in
your life.

Moore's Law. In 1964, Gordon
Moore, co-founder of Intel, noted that CMOS
transistor density doubles reliably every 18-24 months.
In 1999, Ray Kurzweil noted this doubling
trend has held for at least 110 years. What will this
enable in 2015? In 2025?

Dickerson's Law. In 1977, Richard
Dickerson, professor of physical chemistry
at Caltech, noted that solved protein crystal structures
had risen from one in 1961 to 23. He published a simple
exponential formula which predicted that by March 2001,
scientists would have solved 3-D structures for more
than 12,000 proteins. He was only 57 short of the actual
number. What other physical processes are so predictably
computation dependent?

Smith's Law. In 1999, Alvy
Ray Smith, Microsoft graphics guru and co-founder
of Pixar, said "Reality is 80 million polygons."
Joi Ito notes that Toy Story
had 5-6 million polygons per frame. Toy Story 2
had twice that. Our best digital faces today have 100
motion control points. The actual Reality Transition
may be 800 million polygons per frame and thousands
of control points. We will reach that threshold within
15 years. What then?

Accelerating Change
meta-themes: How do we use technology to rapidly and humanely
improve our world? Where does the world need to be changed,
and what do we need to protect in the process?

Need More? Read this special
letter on the personal and professional benefits of the
Accelerating Change
community.